dapple-grey

/'dæpl'grei/

Thân thiện

A dapple-grey horse grazes in a sunlit meadow.

Definition

1. Noun:
   • A horse with a grey coat that has a mottled pattern of darker grey markings: "dapple-grey" refers specifically to a horse whose base grey color is marked with rounded, cloudy spots or patches of a darker grey shade.

Usage

• The term is used primarily as a noun to describe a horse with this specific coat color pattern. It is a compound word formed from "dapple" (meaning a spot or patch) and "grey" (the color).

Examples

• Noun:
  • The princess rode a beautiful dapple-grey.
  • He bought a dapple-grey for his stable.

Advanced Usage

• As a color descriptor: While primarily a noun for the horse, the pattern itself can be described as "dapple-grey."
  • She admired the dapple-grey coat of the mare.

Variants and Related Words

• Dapple-gray: An alternative spelling, common in American English.
• Dappled grey: A phrasal adjective describing something marked with spots, not limited to horses.
  • The dappled grey light filtered through the trees.

Synonyms

• Fleabitten grey: A horse coat color with small, dark specks, though the pattern is different from the larger, cloud-like dapples.
• Dappled horse: A more general term for a horse with a dappled coat, which could be other colors like bay or chestnut.

Related Phrases

• In dapple-grey: Used to specify the color when describing a horse.
  • The knight's steed was in dapple-grey.

Học thuật

Noun

1. grey with a mottled pattern of darker grey markings

Từ đồng nghĩa

• dapple-gray
• dappled-grey
• dappled-gray